Did Pakistan learn from its Bangladesh experience?
- Journal of Defence Studies
- 15(4), Oct-Dec, 2021: p. 297-320
This article seeks to re-analyse the pattern of Pakistani response to the demands from East Bengal as a federating unit with distinct linguistic and regional identity, which led to eventual vivisection of Pakistan, and examine whether in the post-1971 years Pakistan learnt any lesson from its Bangladesh experience and used it to deal with similar assertions at ethnic and regional levels. – Reproduced